Knowledge, attitude, and practice of organ donation among pharmacy students

• Main Authors: Prasanna R Deshpande, Preeti Damle, Gopal Bihani, Somshekhar S Khadabadi, Anantha N Naik, Atmaram P Pawar
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2018-01-01
• Series: Indian Journal of Transplantation
• Subjects: India; organ donation; pharmacy; students
• Online Access: http://www.ijtonline.in/article.asp?issn=2212-0017;year=2018;volume=12;issue=2;spage=113;epage=118;aulast=Deshpande

Objective: To assess knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) of organ donation (OD) among pharmacy students. Methodology: A web-based, cross-sectional study of students pursuing different pharmacy courses was conducted. A specially designed questionnaire was used to survey the students. Results: A total of 160 students responded to survey. Nearly, three-fourth students wished to donate organs to anyone, 83.1% wanted to donate by considering the health status of the recipient, and 98.1% feel that OD should be promoted. Some negative findings were as follows: less knowledge about some uncommon organs that can be donated, for example, blood vessels, bone, intestine, and heart valves; 76.3% students do not know the process of registering while 84.4% have not registered/pledged for OD. Average knowledge about law related to OD was also poor, i.e., 1.87. Conclusion: Overall KAP for OD was positive for except for a few issues. There is need to add some OD related topic/s in the pharmacy curriculum.